# Harbor House — Travellers' Inn / Homeless-Relief Hostel, Sheffield

Paths below are relative to this directory (`projects/harbor-house/`)
unless stated otherwise. For the generalized method and repo-wide
conventions shared with other projects, see the root `CLAUDE.md`.

## What this project is

Harbor House is a travellers' inn intended to relieve pressure on homeless
services, sited in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Unlike the Ecuador museum
project (a public-advocacy counter-proposal responding to a real open
call), this project's origin brief is thin: "a travellers' inn to relieve
pressure on homeless services" in Sheffield, with scale and other
programmatic detail left to reasonable assumption rather than sourced from
an external brief document — see the "Note on method" at the top of
`docs/sheffield.md` for what was assumed versus sourced. It exists
primarily as the **second validation project** for this repo's generalized
method and form-language template (see root `CLAUDE.md`), proving the
pipeline generalizes beyond its Ecuador origin to an unrelated typology and
region.

## Inputs (`ref/`)

- `harbor-house-pattern-language.txt` — the project-specific pattern
  subset (Alexander/Ishikawa/Silverstein patterns such as TRAVELER'S INN,
  SLEEPING IN PUBLIC, COURTYARDS WHICH LIVE), the core design-constraint
  input for narrative writing, parallel to the Ecuador project's
  `A Pattern Language Ecuador National Museum.md`.

## Form language (`docs/sheffield.md`)

Generated using `method/form-language-prompt-template.md` — this is the
template's second worked example (the Ecuador form-language grammar,
`projects/ecuador-museum/ref/Ecuadorian_Form_Language_Grammar.md`, was the
first). Supplies the climate script for Sheffield, a form vocabulary drawn
from South Yorkshire/Pennine building history, composition syntax, and
color/ornament systems, to be combined with the pattern subset in the
narrative-writing prompt. Unlike the Ecuador worked example, this document
was generated with real web search available, so climate figures and
precedents are sourced inline rather than drawn from training-data
recollection alone — see its own "Note on method" section.

## Deliverable

- `narratives/sheffield-narrative.md` — the experiential design narrative
  for Harbor House, grounded in the pattern subset and form language above.
  Unlike Ecuador's four stakeholder viewpoints, this project currently has
  a single narrative, not split by stakeholder (visitor/staff/etc.) — no
  multi-viewpoint pass has been done here yet.
- `docs/sheffield.docx` — a pandoc export of the narrative for sharing (not
  committed to the repo, regeneratable, same convention as Ecuador's
  `counter-proposal.docx`).
- `docs/images/originals/` — two ChatGPT-generated illustration contact
  sheets (9-panel storyboards walking through "a day at Harbor House":
  arrival, threshold, hearth, courtyard, gallery, shared meal, places
  apart, sleeping neighbourhoods, evening) grounded in the narrative.
  `harbor-house-storyboard-draft.png` and `harbor-house-storyboard.png` are
  two passes at the same 9-scene storyboard (the latter adds a title
  card and slightly revised captions); it's not confirmed which, if
  either, is meant to be final — unlike Ecuador, there's no
  `illustration-prompts.md` equivalent recording the prompts that produced
  these, and no split into one image-per-scene at full resolution +
  compressed top-level copy (Ecuador's `docs/images/` convention).

## Status

Less mature than the Ecuador project: pattern subset, form language, and
one narrative exist, plus two draft illustration contact sheets. Not yet
done, if this project is to reach parity with Ecuador's pipeline:

- Decide whether a single narrative is sufficient for this project's
  purpose, or whether multiple stakeholder viewpoints (e.g. resident,
  staff/caseworker, neighbor) are wanted.
- Reconcile the two storyboard images (pick one, or regenerate) and decide
  whether to adopt Ecuador's per-scene illustration-prompt convention
  (`docs/illustration-prompts.md` + one image per placeholder) instead of
  a single contact-sheet image.
- No public-facing combined presentation document (Ecuador's
  `docs/counter-proposal.md` equivalent) exists yet — currently the
  narrative and images are separate deliverables, not merged into one.